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whostolemymonkey

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Stumbled upon this site, its a central town location and was its insides where a bit of a suprise.
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ABOVE: the entrance lobby, they didn't have a 3rd floor
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ABOVE: the first office we came across, full of chairs
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ABOVE: the inner lobby with 3 smaller offices off the front end, off to the left is the entrance to the strong room
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the strong room as seen from the inner lobby, the strong room had no windows and only one access door, it had seperate ventilation system to the rest of the building and this was in a reinforced brick container in the rear fire exit area, also the lighting had pull cords for each strip light, these must have been allocated to benches / work areas during a former use
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The walk in safe, full height and built into the fabric of the building, guarded by Henry the hoover
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the logo on the safe door
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The lift lobby, the lifts were positioned at the rear of the building
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1st floor riser cupboard, each floor had a riser like this
(1)
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(2)
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Above two pictures, 1st floor comms/server room. Another suprise lurked behind the cable access panel in picture 1
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An old Lamson lift, originally serving all 6 floors, the ground floor one has been covered over with a false wall, all others can still be seen in the cable access ducts.
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The fire escape
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Above the false ceiling, showing the remains of the original ceiling

We spent a few hours walking this site, the building is in a good state of repair and is slowly being refurbished, there was a lot of interesting stuff here, all major items of equipment have been removed but a few smaller items still remain.
For more pics go here : http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll241/Whostolemymonkey/?albumview=grid
 
There was 6 floors of office space, a few bits of furniture were layong around, and the fixed workbenches were still in situ, the kitchen areas were still intact (sinks, cupboards etc) but it was mostly as the pics show. There was another comms room on the 4th floor that was still mostly intact, if I go back i'll take some more pics.
 
Great and unusual find,lots of interesting bits and bobs in there and amazingly the electricity is still on:confused::)
 

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